New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted two drug manufacturing labs in Greater Noida and seized amphetamine material worth Rs 45 crore. Two people have been arrested in the action.
The two drug labs were busted in Village Jahanabad Kadalpur in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddha Nagar district on October 16 as part of Operation Crystal Hunt, the NCB said in a statement on Saturday. The NCB recovered 379.740 kg of amphetamine material - 4.260 kg of crystalline material, 157.700 kg of semi-crystalline material and 217.780 kg of liquid material worth approximately 56 kg of the finished drug, valued at Rs 45 crore in the illicit market, it said.
Besides 10 kg of pseudoephedrine, the NCB also seized chemicals like hydrochloric acid, acetone, toluene, sulphuric acid and potassium permanganate from the two drug labs. The NCB found reaction vessels, heating mantles, filtration systems, chemical drums and weighing scales at the premises of the two labs.
The accused, Destiny Abraham Dumbiri, a self-styled Nigerian national, and Lallawmzuali alias Olivia Lalchawimawii, a resident of Mizoram, were arrested. "The immigration records reveal that Destiny Abraham Dumbiri had entered India in January 2020 in India in the name Francis Kalokoh as a citizen of Sierra Leone. NCB is looking into the use of multiple identities," the NCB said.
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